Broadband upgrade from BT to Virgin Media Voom1

[tekguru]

Well we've moved from British Telecom for our internet supplier to Virgin Business. It's costing us about £3 a month more.
Speeds have increased from 38 (download) / 4 mbps (upload) to 382 / 21 mbps.
We went with the business package (Voom1) as that actually as an uptime SLA of 99.9%.
Very very pleased....... A quick install and commissioning process too. Working painlessly with our Orbi mesh network (Virgin router in pass-through mode)

Hopefully it'll be stable and perform well as it's all new fibre which was only laid a month or so ago.

Anyway I just wanted to share the joy!

 

[SynoMan]

Congrats! Wish you all the best with the new internet supplier.

 

[tekguru]

Aye, fingers are crossed. Loving it so far!

 

[Jan Janowski]

2 years ago Fibre laid in valley. Cable company & businesses using it now. Was told by service guy that it will start up mountain next year. We are 5 miles and ~2000’ up from valley floor in Western NC.

 

[tekguru]

Wow! And I thought things were bad around here!

 

[Tedster]

I just left BT too. Terrible company, I was glad to see the back of them!

Enjoy your new connection.

 

[tekguru]

The connection although slow with them was solid enough, the customer service was absolutely dire though. Oh yes the increase in speed is wonderful, painless upgrade to DSM on the NAS this morning

 

[Tedster]

Yes, that's what did it for me with them. Plus their computer system is appalling too.

 

[tekguru]

Yeah much better options out there now. I'm just so happy that Virgin laid their fibre in our area at last. We were looking to wait for BT to put their fibre in but that'll be at least 18 months.